[ExI] Darwin & Mendel

[Damien Broderick]

At 10:24 PM 6/8/2009 +0200, Mirco wrote:

>Charles Darwin was not an atheist, IIRC.

He lost his Xian faith.

>He was a Christian.

He didn't make a song and dance about his disbelief. He was 
conventional and shy.

>Was he buried where?

Yes, he was buried, unlike Jeremy Bentham, who was stuffed and mounted:

<http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://lostbutfound.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/01/jeremy_bentham_autoicon_7.jpg&imgrefurl=http://lostbutfound.typepad.com/theanswerstolost/2008/08/jeremy-benthams.html&usg=__aoP8TpNceU5EF8DnRmm-fnaSlqE=&h=800&w=600&sz=79&hl=en&start=4&um=1&tbnid=x73eydmKnRlc5M:&tbnh=143&tbnw=107&prev=/images%3Fq%3DJeremy%2BBentham%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1>

As you surely know, Darwin was planted in Westminster Abbey.

>Did Mendel do something wrong?

Yes, he forgot to tell anyone, thereby setting back genetics by a 
generation or more.

Damien Broderick